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Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, today announced the availability of version 1.5 of Zend Framework, the popular open source PHP framework. Zend Framework is an open source project best known for its support for fast, efficient creation of PHP applications. It has developed a strong community and has attracted contributions from over 400 individual and corporate-sponsored developers, including Microsoft, Fox Interactive Media, IBM and Google. Since its debut, Zend Framework has been downloaded over four million times. It can be downloaded from http://framework.zend.com.

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Hi all,

It is my pleasure to announce the availability of Zend Framework 1.5.0 Preview Release!

http://framework.zend.com/download

This release showcases features that will be introduced in the final 1.5 release. The intent of this release is to give our users access to the latest features in Zend Framework and to improve the overall quality of the production release through the feedback we receive. In particular, your feedback could help make the Zend Framework 1.5 production release a success, so please post your comments and questions to the appropriate mailing list and bring bugs to our attention by creating an issue in our issue tracker:

http://framework.zend.com/issues

An overview of new features:

• New Zend_Form component with support for AJAX-enabled form elements
• New action and view helpers for automating and facilitating AJAX requests and alternate response formats
• Infocard, OpenID, and LDAP authentication adapters
• Support for complex Lucene searches, including fuzzy, date-range, and wildcard queries
• Support for Lucene 2.1 index file format
• Partial, Placeholder, Action, and Header view helpers for advanced view composition and rendering
• New Zend_Layout component for automating and facilitating site layouts
• UTF-8 support for PDF documents
• New Technorati, SlideShare, and Remember the Milk web services

This release also includes many enhancements to existing features and solutions for known issues with existing framework components. For more information, please see README.txt in the framework distribution.

The code in this release provides a ‘sneak peek’ at features to be included in the upcoming Zend Framework 1.5 release and is not intended for production use. Please be aware that the API’s introduced in this release may not be final, and that the Zend Framework team does not guarantee backwards compatibility to this release in future releases of Zend Framework. Some of the code included in the library folder for this release is currently under development in the incubator repository. Inclusion in this release for such components and features does not necessarily imply inclusion for a production release of Zend Framework. We strongly discourage the use of this preview release in production environments or for projects that could not easily be refactored to work with future releases of Zend Framework. We strongly recommend evaluating these features for use in future projects, however, and would appreciate any feedback.

Thanks to all in the Zend Framework community who have volunteered their time and expertise to help make these releases possible! :)

Best regards,
Darby

The Zend Framework team is delighted to announce that the official release process for Zend Framework 1.5 has begun! Since the 1.5 is a substantial release, we’ve decided to kick things off with a preview release to put all the new functionality in the community’s hands as early as possible. This release will be followed by as many release candidates as are needed to meet the high quality standards of the ZF project. Features to be released in Zend Framework 1.5 include, but are not necessarily limited to:

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.4.8. It continues to improve the security and the stability of the 4.4 branch and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as possible. This release wraps up all the outstanding patches for the PHP 4.4 series, and is therefore the last normal PHP 4.4 release. If necessary, releases to address security issues could be made until 2008-08-08.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 4.4.8:

• Improved fix for MOPB-02-2007.
• Fixed an integer overflow inside chunk_split(). Identified by Gerhard Wagner.
• Fixed integer overlow in str[c]spn().
• Fixed regression in glob when open_basedir is on introduced by #41655 fix.
• Fixed money_format() not to accept multiple %i or %n tokens.
• Addded "max_input_nesting_level" php.ini option to limit nesting level of input variables. Fix for MOPB-03-2007.
• Fixed INFILE LOCAL option handling with MySQL - now not allowed when open_basedir or safe_mode is active.
• Fixed session.save_path and error_log values to be checked against open_basedir and safe_mode (CVE-2007-3378).

For a full list of changes in PHP 4.4.8, see the ChangeLog.